The author of the republished essays is the famous Russian journalist and public figure Grigory Konstantinovich Gradovsky (1842–1915), who collaborated and published mainly in liberal-bourgeois publications. In journalism of the 70s and 80s, he was one of the most temperamental journalists of the moderate-progressive camp, and his articles were often subject to censorship persecution. During the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878. G.K. Gradovsky was a war correspondent for the newspaper “Golos” in Transcaucasia and Bulgaria. These notes from an eyewitness and participant in hostilities enable our contemporary to read about what he saw and experienced during the four months the author spent in the Asia Minor theater of war.